Mukhtar Ibrahim

He worked at MPR in 2011 as an intern and has filled in as a reporter and as a freelancer.

Before joining MPR, he has written for several publications, including Al Jazeera English, about issues relating to the use of technology, emerging threats, terrorism and diplomacy. He's the founder of Sahan Journal, a digital news publication filled with in-depth pieces on issues affecting Somalia and the diaspora.

An avid user of social media, Mukhtar graduated from the University of Minnesota in 2011 with a degree in journalism.

"Our worst nightmare has come to fruition," St. Cloud Police Chief William Blair Anderson told reporters Friday after Hamza Elmi's body was found in the Mississippi River following a search.
(07/24/2015)

When the Minneapolis Veterans Medical Center decided to limit the dispensing of narcotic painkillers, some who obtained narcotics from other sources overdosed and died, the Star Tribune reported.
(MPR News Update,
07/21/2015)

When he lived in Minnesota, Liban Dirie worked to stop the recruitment of local Somali youth by al-Shabab. Now he's in danger of being sent to Somalia, where the terrorists have threatened to kill him.
(06/27/2015)